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The Desert’s Use

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The Desert’s Use

Poet(s)

Sterling, John

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 42:265, 586, November 1837.

First line

Why wakes not Life the desert bare and lone?

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned Poetry by our New Contributor (573-98), by John Wilson. Poet attribution: Wellesley Index. (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 14351

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “The Desert’s Use,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1837/pom_14351_the_deserts_use.html.

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